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Welcome to Day 1401 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.I am Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to WisdomMastering the Bible \u2013 Israel Today and the Temple of God \u2013 Worldview WednesdayWisdom - the final frontier to true knowledge.\xa0Welcome to Wisdom-Trek! Where our mission is to create a legacy of wisdom, to seek out discernment and insights, to boldly grow where few have chosen to grow before. Hello, my friend, I am Guthrie Chamberlain, your captain on our journey to increase Wisdom and Create a Living Legacy.\xa0Thank you for joining us today as we explore wisdom on our 2nd millennium of podcasts. Today is Day 1401 of our Trek, and it is Worldview Wednesday.\xa0Creating a Biblical Worldview is essential to have a proper perspective on today\u2019s current events.\xa0To establish a Biblical Worldview, you must have a proper understanding of God and His Word.\xa0Our focus for the next several months on Worldview Wednesday is Mastering the Bible, through a series of brief insights. These insights are extracted from a book of the same title from one of today\u2019s most prominent Hebrew Scholars, Dr. Micheal S. Heiser. This book is a collection of insights designed to help you understand the Bible better.\xa0When we let the Bible be what it is, we can understand it as the original readers did, and as its writers intended. Each week we will explore two insights.


Mastering The Bible \u2013 Israel Today and the Temple of GodInsight Sixty-Nine: In the New Testament \u201cIsrael\u201d Doesn\u2019t Always Refer to the Nation or Its PeopleEarlier, we saw that use of the term \u201cIsrael\u201d varied in the Old Testament. Sometimes \u201cIsrael\u201d referred to all twelve tribes, and other times it referred to the northern kingdom of ten tribes following the fracturing of the kingdom. The variation in meaning, then, was due to politics and geography.


The New Testament also uses \u201cIsrael\u201d in a variety of ways. Sometimes it refers to the Promised Land, the twelve tribes, or ethnic Jews. But this time, the reason is driven by theology.


The birth of the early church in the book of Acts shows us plainly that God\u2019s people were never intended to be identified with ethnic Israel forever. Gentiles were destined for inclusion in the people of God, as was told to Abraham in Galatians 3:7-9 (https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Galatians+3%3A7-9&version=NLT) . The real children of Abraham, then, are those who put their faith in God. \xa0What\u2019s more, the Scriptures looked forward to this time when God would make the Gentiles right in his sight because of their faith. God proclaimed this good news to Abraham long ago when he said, \u201cAll nations will be blessed through you.\u201d\xa0So all who put their faith in Christ share the same blessing Abraham received because of his faith.


Paul moves from this opening to a discussion of the law. He denies the law\u2019s saving power and instead holds up faith in Christ. Israel\u2019s Messiah, as the way of salvation. Then he closes his argument with language that would startle both the Jewish and gentile unbeliever in Galatians 3:25-29 (https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Galatians+3%3A25-29&version=NLT) :


And now that the way of faith has come, we no longer need the law as our guardian. For you are all children\xa0of God through faith in Christ Jesus.\xa0And all who have been united with Christ in baptism have put on Christ, like putting on new clothes.\xa0There is no longer Jew or Gentile, slave or free, male and female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus.\xa0And now that you belong to Christ, you are the true children of Abraham. You are his heirs, and God\u2019s promise to Abraham belongs to you.


Paul couldn\u2019t be more explicit: if you are Christ\u2019s, then you are Abraham\u2019s offspring, heirs according to promise. There is one people of God.


\xa0Insight Seventy: The People of God Are the Temple of GodPresuming they had access to the Scriptures, the Bible of the earliest Christians was...